A Brilliant Anxiety, Depression and Stress Management
Technique You Can Use Right Now
- by Chris Green
(c) Chris Green - All Rights reserved
http://www.conqueringstress.com
Stress. Depression. Anxiety. They’re powerful words that
conjure up all kinds
of images and prejudices in our minds.
People who suffer from these illnesses
find it hard to cope
with life. They can feel deeply unhappy, they can find no
joy in anything life has to offer, and of course, their
levels of self-esteem,
confidence and self-respect plummet.
Let's look at a major factor with all of these problems and then
I'll show you a
brilliant anxiety, depression and stress
management technique you can use as
soon as you've read this
article.
First, we'll look at how anxiety, depression and stress affect the
way sufferers
value the self. Of all of the destructive patterns of
behavior these problems
cause, the way a sufferer talks to
the self is the fuel that maintains anxiety,
depression and stress.
I have experienced depression from two sides. For 5 years, a
series of traumatic
events triggered a personal nightmare I
believed would never end. One of these
events came when my
lover was diagnosed with depression. At this time, I too
had
entered into the spiral of anxiety and depression. Both
of these
experiences
have given me an insight into how
sufferers destroy
any value of the self.
Let me give a couple of examples. With my partner, if I’d
arranged an evening out
with friends, she’d say:
"No, I won’t come, you go without me. I never have anything
interesting to say. I
just bore people. They’ll find me an
effort to be with. I’ll stay here."
If I made a mistake, I’d say to myself:
"I’m useless. I’m no good at anything. Everything I do I get
wrong."
This self-deprecation then spreads into other areas of life.
You begin to criticize
the way you look, the decisions you
make or don’t make, and you focus solely on
the downside of
life. Each time a little bit of self-worth, a little bit of
self-respect
and a little bit of self-confidence are eroded.
Eventually, they are lost completely.
When I reached my
lowest point, having lost everything and everyone I loved,
I’d say to myself:
"If I died tomorrow, no one would know and no one would
care."
So, what helped me to come out of the fog of anxiety and
depression?
Well, the reason I thought I’d become depressed was because
of a series of
traumatic events occurring at the same time.
I was wrong. The root cause of my
depression lay in the ways
I reacted to them. One of the ways I’d reacted was to
blame
myself for events I couldn’t control. The more I blamed
myself, the more I
beat myself up. The more I beat myself
up, the more my self-esteem decreased.
The phrases I have used to briefly illustrate self-
deprecating phrases we
continually use against the self are
mild. I’m sure you realize that many sufferers
use much
stronger phrases than I’ve given here. The point is that
these phrases
would be totally unacceptable to say to
others. You wouldn’t tell a person that they
were boring, an
effort to be with and that everyone found their company dull
and it
would be better for everyone else if they kept away
from people.
Agreed?
Yet, if I say to people:
"Pay yourself compliments. Accentuate your good in all areas
of your life. Write
down your good points, your triumphs,
your achievements. Remind yourself as
often as possible
about all the good you have done."
They look at me like I’m an alien and say they’d feel
stupid. Or uncomfortable. Or
even embarrassed.
Yet they don’t feel any of these emotions when they talk to
themselves using
emotionally charged, self-deprecating
phrases! And like rust upon metal, these
phrases gradually
erode our self-esteem and our confidence.
OK, here’s a brilliant anxiety,
depression and stress management
technique you
can use right now to help you find relief. I’d like you
to inscribe what
you are about
to read into your mind over and over
again
until it is permanently etched there:
It is NEVER acceptable to talk to myself in a way I know is
inappropriate and even
offensive if I spoke in the same way
to others.
It's just one sentence but my word is it a very powerful anxiety,
depression and
stress management technique and I urge you to
use it starting right now.
Time for me to sign off, but before I do, here’s a phrase I
say to myself every single
day without fail. Please use it,
it is very powerful:
"If you put yourself down, down is where you will stay."
Click Here Now to get started right away on
kicking stress, depression and anxiety out of your life forever
so you can enjoy a brighter, happier future!
**Resource Box**
Former anxiety sufferer Chris Green is the author of
"Conquering Stress", the
internationally acclaimed program
which will help you to permanently conquer stress,
depression and anxiety without taking powerful drugs. For
more information, please
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http://www.conqueringstress.com
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